Quick Transmigration: When Can I Just Lay Down and Wait to Die?

Chapter 92 *The Legend of Zhen Huan* Borjigit Clan 8

Consort Hua was naturally unhappy because her attempt to steal a chicken had backfired. However, since the matter was already settled, there was no point in saying more. So she told the Emperor that she had made a soup with donkey-hide gelatin and longan when she left the palace and invited him to have some and rest early. The Emperor then returned to Yikun Palace with Consort Hua.

Earlier today, the Emperor had chosen Consort Qi, but she left speechless. It's likely that she hadn't been chosen since entering the palace, and she got a little agitated. First, she changed into pink clothes, saying that the Emperor had said she looked best in pink, but she didn't seem to realize how old she was.

Later, when the Emperor was reading, she stood awkwardly in front of him again. Decades had passed since she entered the Fourth Prince's residence, yet she acted as reserved as if she had just arrived. The Emperor wanted to read in peace, but she stood there making small talk, "Your Majesty, the Third Prince has grown taller again!" "He's already an adult, and he's still growing?" "Yes, and he's gotten stronger too!"

Since the Emperor had finally come to visit, she naturally had to praise the Third Prince in front of him and show off her dedication to his education, since he was her future support. However, she was not good at speaking, and she kept repeating the same few phrases: "Every time I see the Third Prince, I say, 'Hongshi, you must listen to your father. You are your father's eldest son, so you must strive to live up to his expectations. In the future, the burden of relieving your father's worries will fall on your shoulders!'"

The Emperor stopped reading and replied, "Hongshi is tired of hearing these words, and so am I. Don't you have anything else to teach your son?" He became increasingly agitated and got up to leave, but was then taken to Yikun Palace by Consort Hua.

The next day, the greetings were another back-and-forth affair. This time, no one benefited. The only one who got the better deal was Zhen Huan. Perhaps her performance that night caught the emperor's eye, or perhaps the emperor couldn't let go of his pride. He took the opportunity to release Zhen Huan from confinement, and Zhen Huan finally got to serve the emperor.

She had no other thoughts now but hoped to serve the Emperor more often and change his impression of her as soon as possible. With Zhen Huan's release from confinement, she was chosen for the palace for five consecutive days. Consort Hua was now a walking gas cylinder, ready to explode at the slightest touch. The other concubines in the palace avoided her whenever they walked.

Zhen Huan was known as the "female Zhuge Liang" and she was never at a disadvantage in her verbal exchanges with Consort Hua. The only disadvantage she suffered was that she was still a concubine. The Emperor, perhaps harboring some resentment, did not promote her rank despite his favor towards her.

Zhen Huan made Consort Hua suffer a loss, so how could Consort Hua swallow this insult? She forced Cao Qin to come up with a plan, but there were only so many concubines in the palace. Xia Dongchun had also become more Buddhist-like under Yu Xi's influence. The three of them, Zhen Huan, and Consort Hua, banded together for warmth. The rest were either those who had sided with the Empress or Consort Hua's own people. She didn't want her own people to take action, fearing that if it were discovered in the end, it would implicate her.

Later, Cao Qinmo said that after Wen Shichu's incident, Zhen Huan had no trusted imperial physicians left, and suggested that Consort Hua could start from this angle, including Shen Meizhuang, so that it would be easier to do whatever she wanted in the future. Yu Xi overheard their entire discussion while strolling around, and knew that this fake pregnancy plot would still be repeated.

Yu Xi was getting a bit fed up lately. She spent all her time in the palace watching these people fight each other. At first, she found it quite interesting, but after a while, she got tired of the sights in the palace. In the end, someone always had to take the blame for the infighting between the concubines. Yu Xi felt that if she continued like this and saw too many bad things, she might end up with a mental health problem.

She figured that in both official history and TV dramas, the Fourth Prince was the one who succeeded to the throne. So if the "Big Fat Orange" (a nickname for the prince) were to become weak, wouldn't the harem stop fighting over him? And if the "Big Fat Orange" were to become weak, he probably wouldn't have any other ambitions, and wouldn't it be better for him to focus his energy on politics and cultivating a successor?

If he were to suddenly change his temperament and become a tyrant, it wouldn't matter if the Qing Dynasty were overthrown much earlier, since it was already on a downward spiral anyway. Perhaps it would be better to change dynasties now!

She acted on her thought immediately. Luckily, she had various medicines prepared for her by the government during her past life in her spatial dimension. She remembered the person in charge of preparing the medicines saying that she could find anything she could think of. Without further ado, she returned directly to Zhongcui Palace, saying she was tired and needed a short rest. She then asked Xia Dongchun to take Babudou and the maids to play in another room. She lay on the chaise longue, using her spiritual power to search through her spatial dimension.

Fortunately, during the natural disaster, all the buildings were planned out, with various supplies stored in designated areas. Each major category was further subdivided, so her search was straightforward; she found the medicine section and then the room storing male enhancement drugs.

I was surprised to find out so much about Yuxi. It turns out there are spermicides – some can cause azoospermia (absence of sperm) in men after a certain dosage. Others damage nerves in that area; a certain dosage will cause those nerves to die, and if the nerves die, that area is essentially paralyzed! That's like biological castration!

There are negative and positive aspects, which I won't go into detail here. They are both colorless and odorless. It's perfect that these two medicines are used together to completely eliminate any future problems. Even if nerve problems can be treated, they are very difficult to cure, let alone necrotic nerves. With current medical technology, they should be incurable. Therefore, even if the imperial physicians diagnosed the illness, Yuxi was not worried.

When she was bored, she had experimented with her mental energy. She discovered that it could hold very light objects, so she didn't need to show her face to drug "Big Fat Orange" with her mental energy. She decided to drug him when he was in the Qianqing Palace. One reason was to avoid implicating others later, and another was that the drug's effects wouldn't be noticed until he took someone to sleep with him. By then, the teacups and such would have been thoroughly cleaned, leaving absolutely no evidence.

A little south of Jingren Palace, separated from Qianqing Palace by only a wall to the west, Yuxi decided to go to Jingren Palace early the next morning to pay her respects to the Empress and get this done, lest something go wrong. Following the instructions, she took out the prescribed dosage of both medicines and put them away separately. Then, Yuxi went out to find Xia Dongchun and the others.

The next day, after paying her respects, Yu Xi, accompanied by her little follower Xia Dongchun, left Jingren Palace. She then told Xia Dongchun to stroll around a bit before heading back. As they walked south, Yu Xi used her spiritual power to observe the main hall of Qianqing Palace. Sure enough, Emperor Yongzheng was reviewing memorials, with a cup of tea on his desk. Yu Xi thought that she had to administer the medicine the moment he drank the tea, ideally by directly feeding it to him. This was the safest method. If she put the medicine in the teacup, and he didn't drink it for a long time, the tea would get cold, requiring a fresh, hot cup, rendering her medicine ineffective.

So when passing by the Qianqing Palace, Yuxi walked particularly slowly. Fortunately, Emperor Yongzheng was having tea, so she slipped the medicine into his mouth with the tea as he opened it, saving her a second trip. Now, Yuxi is really looking forward to the days ahead. Indeed, only the unknown can motivate people; the monotony of daily life only erodes human passion.

Life is about taking risks!